Improvement in fences



the board or boards to be inserted.

' NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH EDMUNDS, OF SOUTH ADAMS,I MASSACHUSETTS.

vlivlPRovElvIlzraT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,9Sl, dated March 6, 1866.

' and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speeiiication, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is avertical cross-section of the saine through the line x 00,'Fig. l. Fig. 3 illustrates a modification of my invention in which the improvement is applied to a worm-fence.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object the furnishing an improved fence readily put up, strong and durable, and which will allow any board or any portion of the fence to be taken out and replaced as required without injury thereto; and it consists in a fence the boards of which are attached to the posts by the use of staples and wedges, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Aare the posts, which are set into the ground I in. the usual way, and at the distance apart required by the lengths of the boards B used. Into the posts A are driven staples C. These staples may be driveninto the front of the posts, as represented in Figs. l and 2, or they may be driven into the sides of the posts and then bent at right angles, so as to project in front ofthe posts a sufficient distance to allow If the boards are short, posts at their ends will be sufficient; but if the boards are long it maybe advisable to have a post at the middle of the boards.

The boards B are notched on their under edges, as represented in the drawings, at the points Where they come into Contact with the staples O, so that they may engage with the staples and be prevented from getting out of place. They are also further secured by wedges D, that are driven between the upper edges of the board or boards B and the upper legs of the staples C, as shown. These wedges D force the boards down, so that the notches on their lower edges shall iirrnly grasp the lower legs of the staples and the boards be held securely. In the ease of the posts at the ends of the boards the ends of two contiguous boards overlap each other, and both enter the same staple from different directions, so as to bind the fence firmly together.

When the improvement is applied to a Wormfencc, as illustrated in Fig. 3, staples must be attached to two sides of the posts, be bent up into the proper position, and project sufticiently to receive one thickness of board. In this case the ends of the boards may be beveled, as shown, so as to form a joint. The lower edges of the boards are notched and the wedges applied, as before described.

When the fenceis built in the manner last described the posts A need not be set into the ground, but the fence will be suiciently rm and secure with the lower ends of the posts standing upon thefsurfaee of the ground.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An improved fence, formed by attaching the boards to the fence by means of staples and wedges, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

JOSEPH EDMUNDS.

Witnesses HENRY J. BLIss, E. E. MERCHANT. 

